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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2009
Filed:
May. 06, 2004
Applicant:
AL Hartmann, Round Rock, TX (US);
Inventor:
Al Hartmann, Round Rock, TX (US);
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In the method of the present invention, spam is detected by extracting generalized Ngrams from a section of an e-mail (). A spam manager () extracts () a sequence of characters from a section of an email. The spam manager () iterates () subsequences within the sequence. The spam manager () compares () subsequences to collections of spam-distinguishing subsequences to identify spam e-mail () messages.